> > I don't think that the sym53c8xx driver will work with the 53c80 chip.
> > The designs of the old fashioned 5380 and of the more modern 53c8xx chip
> > series are quite different.
> Nope, reading the README.ncr53c8xx I understood that the sym53c8xx driver
> supports some of the functions on newer cards, dropping support for the older
> ones. Since the older drivers will also work with newer cards, I think that one
> will be best for me.
>
> But I thought all those ncr SCSI adapters were PCI cards, while mine is an ISA
> card?
Despite the very similar name, a NCR5380 is quite different from NCR53c8xx.
The 5380 is a very ancient design (I have an 8bit ISA-card built in 1986
with this chip), the 53c8xx is a modern chip designed for PCI. In fact,
the chip really provides a PCI bus on one side and a SCSI bus on the other
side, so these cards usually consist of just the chip, a clock crystal, a
few resistors and capacitors and the SCSI connectors (at least for BIOS-less
53c810- and 53c860-based cards). Try the g_NCR5380 driver with your card.
Regards,
Ingo
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